Re: [PATCH 2/2] UBI: do not select KALLSYMS_ALL

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Wed Mar 30 2011 - 18:41:49 EST


On Wed, 30 Mar 2011 11:40:16 +0300 Artem Bityutskiy wrote:

> From: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> All UBI needs is to make sure we stacktraces when UBI debugging
> is enabled. It is enough to select KALLSYMS for this, KALLSYMS_ALL
> is not necessary.
>
> And the current Kconfig line we have:
>
> select KALLSYMS_ALL if KALLSYMS && DEBUG_KERNEL
>
> is just too complex to be sane and right. But this "if" part there
> is needed to prevent "unmet direct dependency" warnings, because
> KALLSYMS_ALL depends on KALLSYMS and DEBUG_KERNEL, so we cannot
> just select KALLSYMS_ALL.
>
> Anyway, this feels messy, and we do not seem to really need KALLSYMS_ALL,
> so select KALLSYMS instead.
>
> Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/mtd/ubi/Kconfig | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/mtd/ubi/Kconfig b/drivers/mtd/ubi/Kconfig
> index 6abeb4f..4dcc752 100644
> --- a/drivers/mtd/ubi/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/mtd/ubi/Kconfig
> @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ config MTD_UBI_DEBUG
> bool "UBI debugging"
> depends on SYSFS
> select DEBUG_FS
> - select KALLSYMS_ALL if KALLSYMS && DEBUG_KERNEL
> + select KALLSYMS
> help
> This option enables UBI debugging.
>
> --

Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

---
~Randy
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